In Cold Blood: Death Penalty

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In Cold Blood: Death Penalty

In Cold Blood: Death Penalty

Capital Punishment has been part of the criminal justice system since
the earliest of times. The Babylonian Hammurabi Code(ca. 1700 B.C.) decreed
death for crimes as minor as the fraudulent sale of beer(Flanders 3). Egyptians
could be put to death for disclosing the location of sacred burial
sites(Flanders 3). However, in recent times opponents have shown the death
penalty to be racist, barbaric, and in violation with the United States
Constitution as "...cruel and unusual punishment." In this country,although laws
governing the application of the death penalty have undergone many changes
since biblical times, the punishment endures , and controversy has never been
greater.

A prisoner's death wish cannot grant a right not otherwise possessed.
Abolitionists maintain that the state has no right to kill anyone; . The right
to reject life imprisonment and choose death should be respected, but it chan...

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